{"id":468,"date":"2018-04-10T08:56:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T08:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/scholarly-publishing-experts-share-candid-thoughts-at-the-ismte-2018-asian-pacific-conference\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T13:18:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:48:44","slug":"scholarly-publishing-experts-share-candid-thoughts-at-the-2018-asian-pacific-ismte-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/scholarly-publishing-experts-share-candid-thoughts-at-the-2018-asian-pacific-ismte-conference","title":{"rendered":"Scholarly publishing experts share candid thoughts at the ISMTE 2018 Asian-Pacific conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

I attended the Asian-Pacific Conference of ISMTE along with Editage colleagues Donald Samulack<\/a>, President, US Operations, and Satyajit Rout<\/a>, Head, Research Communication Services, in beautiful Singapore, March 26-27, 2018. As part of the Conference Planning Committee, I had been involved in discussions about the conference agenda, speakers, and logistics for several months and could hardly wait to see all the behind-the-scenes hard work come to fruition at the event. The fact that I love Singapore was an added bonus!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The conference turned out to be an intimate affair, with lots of familiar faces from the global scholarly publishing industry, thought-provoking conversations, and impassioned discourses. Twitter was abuzz with tidbits being shared live on #ISMTE2018, and Donald, Satyajit, and I decided to fuel the social conversations with live video clips, capturing thoughts of various experts and participants in attendance.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The conference kicked off with a keynote talk by Prof. Jos\u00e9 Florencio Lape\u00f1a<\/a>, University of Philippines. Prof Lape\u00f1a offered a detailed account of his learning from the Eighth International Congress on Peer Review<\/a>, which was held in Chicago, September 2017. Capturing the highlights of 3 days of intense discussions on peer review, ethics, the journal editorial process, and issues plaguing scholarly communication, Dr. Lape\u00f1a set the stage perfectly for the talks and sessions that were to follow. It was an honor to see that he had obtained much of the material for his talk from the Editage Insights series of reports on the Peer Review Congress<\/a>, and I couldn\u2019t help beaming with pride at the acknowledgment of Editage Insights on several of his slides.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Happy to know that Dr. Lapena @lapenajf<\/a> found our comprehensive report on the 2017 #PeerReview<\/a> Congress useful for preparing his keynote talk! #ISMTE2018<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/4TruHbkKOT<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Editage Insights (@Editage) March 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Later on, I grabbed the opportunity to capture Prof. Lape\u00f1a\u2019s thoughts on what he was looking forward to in research and publication in 2018, and of course he didn\u2019t disappoint.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n